@MacalesterBio

The official account of the Macalester Biology Department. #heymac 🦠🧠🌱🐺🐁🪱📚🔬

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Highly recommended for all those Mac neuro students!
Minnesota Neuroscience Development Scholars@MINDScholars20 Jan 2023
📢📢📢 Now accepting applications for our 3rd cohort of @MINDScholars!!! Details at z.umn.edu/minds Learn more at our Virtual Open House: 2/13 at 6pm CST (forms.gle/4dEWARnq76iMUHC86) Applications due 3/1; program begins 6/30 Please RT and help spread the word!!!
Minnesota Inclusive Neuroscience Development Scholars (MINDS) Program 2023 Application NOW OPEN! MINDS is a 2-year program that provides historically marginalized post-baccalaureates who want to pursue a PhD in neuroscience with full-time paid research experience and individualized graduate school preparation. MINDS program features include a $35k annual stipend, relocation expenses, one-on-one mentorship, weekly professional development sessions, monthly journal clubs, cohort socials, attending ABRCMS annually, and research presentation opportunities. More detailed information about the MINDS program can be found at http://z.umn.edu/minds. Attend the Virtual Open House on Feb. 13th at 6pm CST to learn more! How to apply: complete the online application and attach your CV or resume; unofficial college transcript(s); and two-page personal statement. Two recommendation letters should be emailed to minds@umn.edu. All application materials due March 1, 2023 at 11:59pm PST.

ALT Minnesota Inclusive Neuroscience Development Scholars (MINDS) Program 2023 Application NOW OPEN! MINDS is a 2-year program that provides historically marginalized post-baccalaureates who want to pursue a PhD in neuroscience with full-time paid research experience and individualized graduate school preparation. MINDS program features include a $35k annual stipend, relocation expenses, one-on-one mentorship, weekly professional development sessions, monthly journal clubs, cohort socials, attending ABRCMS annually, and research presentation opportunities. More detailed information about the MINDS program can be found at http://z.umn.edu/minds. Attend the Virtual Open House on Feb. 13th at 6pm CST to learn more! How to apply: complete the online application and attach your CV or resume; unofficial college transcript(s); and two-page personal statement. Two recommendation letters should be emailed to [email protected]. All application materials due March 1, 2023 at 11:59pm PST.

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Need more fun(gi) in your life? Register for mycology at UMN this summer! A great Mac Bio alum is now in the Schilling Lab :)
Jonathan Schilling@shroominn8 Nov 2022
Field Mycology is open today for Grad-level registration. Come north! PMB 5812 (Drs. Peter Kennedy & Jonathan Schilling, instructors). ⁦@ItascaBio⁩ May 14 - June 2. Virtual kick-off in January. Get 3 credits in 3 weeks onsite. Best. Idea. Ever. [email protected] w/ questions.
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Some sage words for those students writing their personal statements for grad school applications!!
Roman Feiman@RomanFeiman27 Oct 2022
Every year I read a lot of grad school applications from accomplished people that don't give me the info I'm looking for. It feels like a major hidden curriculum thing. So here's (my opinion on) how to write a great Statement of Purpose/Research for a PhD program. 🧵 1/
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Macalester alum seeking a masters student in vert paleo at Loyola of Chicago! @MacalesterBio
Megan Whitney@_megwhit_4 Oct 2022
Vertebrate paleo peeps! The Whitney Lab is recruiting a Master's student for the fall of 2023! If you or someone you know is interested in cutting up fossils, contributing to data addition, and taking pretty photos like this, DM me. You can also find me at #SVP2022 this year!
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We're thrilled to welcome @shantabirdo as a new teaching postdoc in our department. 🎊🎉🙌
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💸JOB ALERT: Project Coordinator position at UPitt studying late-life suicide. Maybe of interest to our neuro majors! Applications details are below. (Contact @Professor_Tong if you have more questions).
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A BIG congratulations to our very own @MaryHeskel for the manuscript acceptance! @heymac
Mary Heskel@MaryHeskel23 Jun 2022
Manuscript accepted! My first pub as a 'last author' and the 1st author and all co-authors are current/recently graduated students @Macalester! More details soon with proofs :)
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#heymac Our very own Dr. Stota Chakrabarti received the Educator of the Year award! Please join us in congratulating Stotra on this outstanding accomplishment! 🙌🎊🎉
Stotra Chakrabarti, PhD@StotraChakraba225 Apr 2022
#heymac Overwhelmed & grateful to receive the #EducatorOfTheYearAward 🥺🥺 I had no idea about this 👀 I am so grateful to all my students, colleagues and mentors @Macalester for the immense support through my first year🙏🏼 @MacalesterBio @MacEcology @MacalesterES #AcademicChatter
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#heymac Overwhelmed & grateful to receive the #EducatorOfTheYearAward 🥺🥺 I had no idea about this 👀 I am so grateful to all my students, colleagues and mentors @Macalester for the immense support through my first year🙏🏼 @MacalesterBio @MacEcology @MacalesterES #AcademicChatter
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Some great job opportunities at the Bell Museum! @MacalesterBio @MacEcology
Bell Museum@BellMuseum31 Mar 2022
We're #hiring an enthusiastic individual to help us foster curiosity for science & nature in our community as a Community Events Coordinator! This position will support off-site community events and partnership events hosted at the Bell. Due April 20. bellmuseum.umn.edu/employmen…
A group of people at a community event looking at fungi

ALT A group of people at a community event looking at fungi

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#heymac the next Biology Dept seminar speaker is our very own, Dr. Stotra Chakrabarti! He'll be speaking about his experiences working with "wild"life and how it resonates with his everyday "human"life. Thurs, March 31st @ 12pm (OLRI100).
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#heymac Next up for our @MacalesterBio Seminar Series is the awesome @MaryHeskel who will be sharing her stellar research on 🌲🌳🌱 from the Arctic to our neighborhood, & highlight amazing mentoring opportunities that she provides➡️tomorrow (March 24) at noon (OLRI 100)🇦🇶🐻‍❄️👀
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Applications for summer opportunities at the Coe College Wilderness Field Station in northern MN are due April 7th! Are there better ways to spend your summer?! Doubtful. See here for more details: coe.edu/academics/coe-differ…

Coe College │ Wilderness Field Station

Imagine that you are sampling aquatic organisms in an ecosystem where the water is so clean you can actually drink it straight from the lake!

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#heymac @MacalesterBio Department Spring Seminar Series continues today with the awesome Robin Shields-Cutler speaking about tamarins and microbes - wooohooo!! join us to hear about his amazing research and journey @OLRI 100 at noon (March 10)🐒🦠
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Extended deadline (until 3/7) for the MINDs postbac program at the U of MN!
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San Francisco Bay summer internships in conservation! @MacalesterBio @MacEcology calcareers.ca.gov/CalHrPubli…

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One of the most detailed models of a human cell obtained using X-ray, NMR, and cryoelectron microscopy: #biology
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#heymac we are thrilled to host our next departmental seminar tomorrow (feb 24 at noon)🎉 Join @sarahlewisboyer to know more about the last Ice Age and how it shaped 🌏 biodiversity 🕷️🦋🦗🦘 @MacalesterBio @Macalester
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Job ad officially up - 1 year postbac position open in our lab for research in comparative & evolutionary biomechanics. Apply now. Interviews start this week. @SICB_DCB_DVM academicjobsonline.org/ajo/j…
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